Max String Length

[eileen1017]

Does anyone know if there is a maximum length allowed for string in perl language? I am kind of new to this. I am trying to do string manipulation. My total string length now is 473. I am still trying to add 6 position to the end of the string. But it won't let me do it. Could some one help me out here? Thanks a lot!

 

[btaber]

A string can eat up all available memory (I have done it), what exactally are you trying to do, and what is your code?

 

[eileen1017]

Well, I have one string $string1 that is 473 positions long, and I have another string $string2 that is 6 positions long. I am trying to add the second string to the end of the first string so what I did is I used string concatnation operator $newstring=$string1.$string2; However, no matter what I do, it won't put those 6 position I wanted at the end of 473th position of the first string. It always put it at around position 440. This makes me wonder if there is a maximum string length allowance. Does anyone have any idea?

 

[btaber]

That is strange, can you post the strings?

 

[btaber]

As you can see, this works:

$string1="BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB";
$string2="123456";
$newstring=$string1.$string2;
print "String 1 length: " . length($string1) . "\n";
print "String 2 length: " . length($string2) . "\n";
print "New string length: " . length($newstring) . "\n";
print "New string: " . $newstring . "\n";

 

[duncdude]

$string1 = "one";
$string2 = "two";
$string1 = $string1.$string2;
print $string1;


Kind Regards
Duncan

 

[PaulTEG]

TIMTOWTDI

$newstring="$string1$string2";

--Paul

 

[duncdude]

$string1 = "1234567890";
$string2 = "ABC";
$pos = 5;

$string1 = substr($string1,0,$pos) . $string2 . substr ($string1, $pos, length($string1)-$pos, $string2);

print $string1."\n";


Kind Regards
Duncan

 

[eileen1017]

Thanks for your input. I finally got it to work. But some how I got it to work with the join function to join a space with it.

 

[duncdude]

???


Kind Regards
Duncan

 

[btaber]

Very strange, oh well, at least you got it to work...